Envelop or expanding wallet.



No. 757,596. PATENTED APR. 19, 1904.

A. BUSHNELL, \TB- ENVELOP OR EXPANDING WALLET.

. APPLIUATION FILED JULY 6, 1903- no mqnsn. I

UNITED STATES Patented April 19, 1 904.

ALVAH BUSHNELL, .13., OF PHlLADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

ENVELQP OR EXPANDING WALLET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 757,596, dated April 19, 1904.

Application filed July 6, 1903- Serial Nb. 164,367. (No model.) i

To all whom it rnayconcern:

Be it known that 1, ALVAH BUSHNELL, J r., a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, county of Philadelphia, and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Envelops' or Expanding Wallets, of which the following is a specification. My invention relates to a new and useful improvement in envelops and expandingwallets, and has for'its object to provide an en-.

velop or Wallet with a false back having an opening cut therethrough and a removable card or slip of paper which can be inserted between the false back and the real back and be exposed to view through the opening; and a further object is to so construct the envelop that the false back will be held at a slight distance from the real back by means of runners, so that the card may be easily inserted and withdrawn, and these runners being so constructed as to prevent the card from tearing the false back from the real back; and another object of my invention is to so form the false back that the same may'beattached to the Wallet in such amafiner that the upper corners will not be easily torn away.

With these ends in view this invention consists in the details of construction and combination of elements hereinafter set forth and then specifically designated by the claims.

In order that those skilled in the art to which this invention appertains may understand how to make and use the same, the construction and operation will now be described in detail, referring to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in Which 'Figure 1 is a perspective view of a wallet, showing my improvement applied thereto; Fig. 2, a vertical section through the wallet; Fig. 3, a cross-section through the same; Fig. 4, a perspective view of the runner which is secured between the false and realback upon each side; Fig. 5, a perspective view of the upper end of the false back before it is applied to the Wallet; Fig; 6, a modified form of false back.

A class of wallets or envelope is now being 5 manufactured made of very strong and tough pearance.

count of the comparative indestructibility of the material of which these wallets or envelope are made they may be used over and over could not be used again without erasing the writing or crossing the same out, and this would not be practical or present a neat ap- Therefore I provide a removable card which may be carried by the envelop or wallet and the contents of the envelop or other data Written or printed upon the card, and when it is desired touse the envelop for other documents the card may beturned over or it may be removed and a new pa'rd inserted in its place.

A patent, No. 7 20, 324, has been granted me for a wallet having a false back behind which a removable card may be inserted, the false back having an opening formed'therethrough through which the card may be viewed, and in this patent in order to facilitate the easy insertion and removal of the card strips are secured in between the false back and the real back upon each side, so as to form runners; but I have found by experience and experiment that such a construction is faulty in some respects, because of the fact that if the card is not inserted in its place straight the corner of the card may cut through in betweeneither the real hack and the runner or the false back and the runner, and thus tear the false back away from the real back along 7 material for the purpose of filing away docurnents and other valuable papers, and on acthe edge. I have overcome this disadvantage Y otherwise secured to the false back. This folded strip may run along the extreme edge of the back of the wallet, or the false back may be glued or otherwise secured to the real back outside of the runners D, or, which is more preferable, is to interpose two runners E in between the'outer edges of the false and real back, so as to hold the false back at a slight distance from the real back and not cause the two flaps of the runner D to come in too close a-contact with one another. The false back is secured to the real back along the lower edge, a strip being interposed between the false and real back along their lower edges to hold these backs at a uniform distance apart. At the upper end of the wallet the two backs are not secured together, leaving a space in which the card F may be inserted, and the card F will enter between the two flaps of the runner D, and therefore will be guided in the fold of the strip and cannot push its way through the side.

In order to prevent the corners of the false back from tearing away from the real back at the upper edge of the wallet where the card is inserted, I form upon the upper end of the false back two lugs Gr, which are on each side of the false back, and these lugs are adapted to be bent over and glued or otherwise secured in one of the folds if it is an expanding wallet, or they are folded over upon the back if it is a plain envelop, and the card may be inserted between the lugs.

In Fig. 6 I have shown a modified form in which the upper end of the false back is provided with a transverse slot H, and this upper end is bent over, the bend coming about midway of the slot transversely, and this bentover end is pasted into the fold or upon the back of the envelop the same as the lugs, the card being inserted through' the slot behind the false back.

Of course I do not wish to be limited to the exact construction here shown, as slightmodr fications could be made without departing from the spirit of my invention.

Having thus fully described my invention,

what I'claim as new and useful is 1. In an envelop or wallet, a false back arranged upon the outside of the real back, an opening formed through the false back, runners arranged upon each side and interposed between the false and real back, each of said runners consisting of a strip folded longitudinally, the real back being secured to one flap of the strip, the false back being secured to the other flap, the runners being arranged with the fold outward, the false back being secured to the real back along the lower edge but being left free of one another along the upper edge in which a card may be inserted, as and for the purpose specified.

4 2. In an envelop or wallet, a false back arranged upon the outside of the real back, said false back having an opening formed therethrough, a card adapted to be inserted from above between the false back and the real back, runners arranged at each side and interposed between the false and real back for guiding the card, each of said runners consisting of a longitudinally-folded strip, the real back being secured to the outside of one flap of the strip, the false back being secured to the outside of the other flap of the strip, a runner extending longitudinally of the wallet outside of the runners and being interposed between the real and the false back to which it is secured upon each side, a strip extending across the lower end between the real and the false back, as and for the purpose specified.

3. In an envelop or wallet, a false back arranged uponthe outside of the real back, an opening formed through the false back, a removable card adapted to be inserted from above between the real and the false back so as to be viewed through the opening, runners arranged upon each side between the real and the false back, each of said runners consisting of a longitudinally-folded strip, the folds of said strip being secured -to the real and false back, the fold of the strip being outward so as to form a guide for the card, a strip interposed between the real and the false back at thevlower end, the upper end of the false back having an extension formed therewith adapted to be folded over and secured in the fold of the wallet or upon the back of the envelop, a space beingleft between'each folded side for the insertion'of the card, as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto aflixed my signature in the presence of two subscrib- 1ng wltnesses.

ALVAH BUSHNELL, JR.

Witnesses:

MARY E. HAMER, L. W. MORRISON. 

